Regionalism Papers

Al-Atrash, Hassan and Yousef, Tarik. "Intra-Arab Trade: Is It Too Little?" International Monetary Fund, January 2000. 

Anderson, Kym. "Globalization, WTO and ASEAN." Center for International Economic Studies, February 2001.

Andriamananjara, Soamiely. "On the Size and Number of Regional Integration Arrangements: A Political Economy Model." World Bank, May 1999.

Andriamananjara, Soamiely and Schiff, Maurice. "Regional Groupings Among Microstates." World Bank, May 1998.

Beghin, John C. and Jean-Christophe Bureau . Quantification of Sanitary, Phytosanitary, and Technical Barriers to Trade for Trade Policy Analysis. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, January 2002.  

Brenton, Paul. Integrating the Least Developed Countries into the World Trading System: The Current Impact of EU Preferences under Everything But Arms. World Bank Policy Paper. February 2003.

Brown, Drusilla K., Alan V. Deardorff, and Robert M. Stern. Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Trade-Policy Options for the United States and Japan. December 16, 2002. Forthcoming in The World Economy.

Cadot, Olivier; de Melo, Jaime and Olarreaga, Marcelo. "Can Duty Drawbacks Have a Protectionist Bias? Evidence from Mercosur." World Bank, February 2001.

Calvert, Donald A. "How the Multilateral Trade System under the World Trade Organization is Attempting to Reconcile the Contradictions and Hurdles Posed by Regional Trade Agreements." George Mason University, December 2002.

Cernat, Lucian. "Assessing Regional Trade Arrangements: Are South-South RTAs More Trade Diverting?" UNCTAD, September 2001.

Chang, Won and Winters, L. Alan. "How Regional Trade Blocs Affect Excluded Countries: The Price Effects of MERCOSUR." World Bank, 1999.

Conconi, Paola. "Strategic Trade Policy and the Threat of Regionalism. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation." Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. June 2001.

Creamer, German. "Open Regionalism in the Andean Community: Trade Creation and Social Access." Tulane University & Social Science Research Network, May 1999.

Das, Dilip. "Regional Trading Agreements and the Global Economy: An Asia-Pacific Perspective." Asian Development Bank, March 2001.

Daxhellet, O. and Y. Smeers.  Cross Border Trade:  A Two-Stage Equilibrium Model of the Florence Regulatory Forum Proposals.  Cambridge University Department of Applied Economics.  July, 2002.

Deardorff, Alan V. and Robert M. Stern. EU Expansion and EU Growth. October 29, 2002.

dell'Aquila, Crescenzo et al. "Regionalism and Trade in Agri-Food Products." International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, May 1999.

de Serres, Alain; Peter Hoeller and Christine de la Maisonneuve. " The Width of the Intra-European Economic Borders." OECD, August 2001.

Diao, Xinshen et al. "What is the Cause of Growth in Regional Trade? Trade Liberalization or RTAs? The Case of Agriculture." International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, January 1999.

Dodsworth, John R.; Mathieu, Paul H.; and Shiells, Clinton R. Cross-Border Issues in Energy Trade in the CIS Countries. IMF Policy Discussion Paper. December 2002.

Foroutan, F. "Does Membership in a Regional Preferential Trade Agreement Make a Country More Or Less Protectionist?" World Bank, March 1998.

Fukao, Kyoji, Toshihiro Okubo, and Robert M. Stern. An Econometric Analysis of Trade Diversion under NAFTA. October 30, 2002.

Gallagher, Kevin P. Is NACEC a Model Trade and Environment Institution? Lessons from Mexican Industry. Global Development and Environment Institute, October 2001.

Goto, J. "Regional Economic Integration and Agricultural Trade." World Bank, August 1997.

Grether, Jean-Marie and Olarreaga,  Marcelo. "Preferential and Non-Preferential Trade Flows in World Trade." World Trade Organization, September 1998.

Gruber, Lloyd. "Rethinking the Rational Foundations of Supranational Governance: Lessons from the North American Free Trade Agreement." University of Chicago, September 1999.

Harris, Richard G. "The New Economy, Globalization and Regional Trading Agreements." Center for International Economic Studies, March 2001. 

Hertel, Thomas W.; Terrie Walmsley and Ken Itakura. "Dynamic Effects of teh 'New Age' Free Trade Agreement Between Japan and Singapore." Global Trade Analysis Project, September 2001.

Hilaire, Alvin and Yongzheng Yang. "The United States and the New Regionalism/Bilateralism." IMF Working Paper, October 2003.

Hoekman, Bernard. "Fair Trade and Deep Integration: Antidumping and Antitrust in Regional Agreements." World Bank, July 1998.

Kaminski, Barlomiej and Francis Ng. "Trade and Production Fragmentation: Central European Economies in EU Networks of Production and Marketing." World Bank, May 2001.

Konishi, Hideo & Kowalczyk, Carsten & Sjostrom, Tomas. "Free Trade, Customs Unions, and Transfers". The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, July 2003.

Kose, M. Ayhan and Riezman, Raymond. "Small Countries and Preferential Trade Agreements: How Severe is the Innocent Bystander Problem?" Center for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, January 2000.

Kose, M. Ayhan and Riezman, Raymond. "Understanding the Welfare Implications of Preferential Trade Agreements." CSGR, October 1999.

Krueger, Anne. "Trade Creation and Trade Diversion Under NAFTA." NBER, December 1999.

Lejour, Arjan; Ruud de Mooij and Richard Nahuis. EU Enlargement: Economic Implications for Countries and Industries. CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, October 2001.

Limao, Nuno.  Are Preferential Trade Agreements with Non-trade Objectives a Stumbling Bloc for Multilateral Liberalization?. Center for International Economic, June 2002.

Mann, Howard and Araya, Monica. "An Investment Regime for the Americas: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability." Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, March 2001.

Mann, Howard. Assessing the Impact of NAFTA on Environmental Law and Management Processes. International Institute for Sustainable Development, October 2001.

Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge  and Duanjie Chen. "The Impact of NAFTA and Options for Tax Reform in Mexico." World Bank, September 2001.

Mathur, Somesh. "South Asian Preferential Trading Arrangement." Jamia Millia Islamia, September 1999.

Mattoo, Aaditya and Carsten Fink. Regional Agreements and Trade in Services.  World Bank, June 2002.

McLaren, John. "On the Dynamics of Trade Diversion." Columbia University, June 1999.

Panagariya, Arvind. "Preferential Trade Liberalization: The Traditional Theory and New Developments." University of Maryland, 1999.

Panagariya, Arvind. "The Regionalism Debate: An Overview." University of Maryland, July 1998.

Public Citizen. "The Coming NAFTA Crash." Global Trade Watch, February 2001. 

Min, Hong-Ghi. Inequality, the Price of Nontradables, and the Real Exchange Rate: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence . World Bank, January 2002.

Razeen, Sally. Whither the WTO? A Progress Report on the Doha Round. Trade Policy Analysis. March 2003.

Riezman, Raymond. "Can Bilateral Trade Agreements Help Induce Free Trade?" CSGR, October 1999.

Sauvé, Pierre. "Canada, Free Trade and the Diminishing Returns from Regionalism." Harvard University, May 1999.

Schiff, Maurice. "Multilateral Trade Liberalization and Political Disintegration: Implications for the Evolution of Free Trade Areas and Customs Unions." World Bank, May 2000.

Schiff, Maurice. Regional Integration and Development in Small States. World Bank, March 2002.

Schilder, Klaus. "Background Paper on the ACP-EU Negotiations on the Future of the Lome Convention." World Economy, Ecology and Development Assoc, May 2000.

Schweickert, Rainer. Assessing the Advantages of EMU-Enlargement for the EU and the Accession Countries: A Comparative Indicator Approach. Institut für Weltwirtschaft, October 2001.

Shapiro, Perry and Jeffrey Petchey. Internationally Mobile Factors of Production and Economic Policy in an Integrated Regional Union of States. Center for International Economic Studies, August 2001.

Soloaga, Isidro and Winters, Alan L. "How Has Regionalism  in the 1990s Affected Trade?" August 1999.

Tenreyo, Silvana.  Gravity Defying Trade.  Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.  March 2003.

Trefler, Daniel. "The Long and Short of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement." National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2001.

US GAO. "North American Free Trade Agreement: US Experience with Environment, Labor, and Investment Dispute Settlement Cases." The United States General Accounting Office, July 2001.

Vamvakidis, Athanasios. "Regional Trade Agreements or Broad Liberalization: Which Path Leads to Faster Growth?" International Monetary Fund Staff Paper, March 1999.

Venables, Anthony. "Regional Integration Agreements: A Force for Convergence or Divergence?" World Bank, December 1999

Winters, Alan L. "Regionalism vs. Multilateralism." World Bank, November 1996.

Wunsch-Vincent, Sacha. The Digital Trade Agenda of the US: Parallel Tracks of Bilateral, Regional, and Multilateral Liberalization. Swiss Review of International Economic Relations. March 2003.

Wunsch, Sacha. The European Communities' WTO Trade Negotiation Jurisdiction Relating to Cross-Border Content Services. October, 2002.

Yamazawa, Ippei. "Regional Cooperation in a Changing Global Environment: Success and Failure of East Asia." Paper prepared for UNCTAD X, December 1999.

Yeats, Alexander. "What Can Be Expected from African Regional Trade Agreements?: Some Empirical Evidence." World Bank, November 1998.

Zissimos, David and Vines, Ben. "Is the WTO's Article XXIV a Free Trade Barrier?" Center for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, February 2000.

Other Resources

Public Citizen. "Down on the Farm: NAFTA's Seven-Years War on Farmers and Ranchers in Alabama." Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, August 2001.

"Regional Trade Agreements and U.S. Agriculture." USDA Economic Research Service. November 1998.